How can I make a comfortable income from home

I work in sales full-time from home (no cold calling), and make around 50000 to 60000 pounds a year.

Could you go back to work full time for a period to develop your skils? If you have a good three years on your CV it will demonstrate your work ethic, and could give you a bit more leverage for finding more tailored work.

Strong data analytics skills that are in desperate short supply was my route but that isn’t for everyone

50k for part time term time work - I suspect there are very few ladies or gents in the country on that !

I don't earn 50k for 30 hours and I've been in my profession for decades (admittedly am underpaid but still...). I could get paid more but I would lose the flexibility.

Taking in ironing + Only Fans

Maybe combine the two?

Virtual PA is what springs to mind.
Youd maybe get close to 50k for full time but it sounds like you want a 9-3 job...

Are you earning £50k for flexible part time hours?

I think you're deluded if you think you can walk into a 50k per year, WFH role when you've not worked anywhere in well over a decade.

Part time work on £50k is going to be hard with no recent experience and an admin background. I’m around that part time with 30 years in my profession. Have you had a look at job adverts for the kind of job you’re training for? What are they offering because that’s your benchmark.

This cannot be a serious post 😂

After you spoke about admin I was going to suggest virtual PA but I doubt it would bring you in £50k.

I think 15 years out of the workplace is only one way to couch it - there was a great post yesterday where someone rewrote her SAHM role as a job and skills and it was really very good.

I too think 50k is going to be a lot though unless you have a serious specialisation. I did think of remote concierge jobs though - combination of admin and organisation, but again with a bit of a specialism you might struggle.

I employ someone in a finance role. It’s 40 hours per week, she is wfh 9 days out of 10 and has a primary age kid. It’s a busy job and she has been working non stop for over a decade. She is also a nearly-qualified accountant so she can easily command a salary of £40k+

If you had not worked for 15 years I would want you to be office based at least for first 6 months , and I don’t think I’d want to pay you more than minimum wage unless you could show some very up to date skills.

You could try training in HR and payroll, it might suit your admin skills?

I think anything in admin will be NMW -28K. Probably towards the latter if you have no recent experience.

You could try the civil service but you’d need to work at least 2-3 days in the office. Councils used to be more flexible with this (at least before Covid).

Ok I'll bite @Sweetly1
So, you havent worked for 15 years and you want to jump straight back into a work from home job that pays you 50k a year. You have literally nil to no chance of this. Literally zero. What is your education level? degree? or just the qualifications you list. I suggest you dramatically lower your expectations and aim at an entry level job somewhere that lets you work from home occassionally and manage child care for the rest of the time.

Why did you do the teaching assistant qualification if you had no intention of being one because you cant do that remotely?

Honestly you are going to be lucky to find any sort of NMW job

I've been a teacher for 20 years and am only just hitting 50k. Works well around kids but only after 10 years did the workload decrease enough that I could have kids.
I split my time between teaching and a management role meaning I work 5 mornings (DH has to do school run) and 3 afternoons. 1 do 2 pick ups and DH does 2. I day at after school club.
So take your TA experience, do teacher training, earn 30k working every minute god sends then in 10 years you might earn closer to 50k but the kids will have grown up. You'll get the holidays though.....

Fully remote or some office attendance flexibility?

Start your own business

It won’t be 50k right away if ever but
-freelance writing, graphic design, website design, social media (think local shop without a teen help)
-bookeeping/tax prep
-very busy dogwalker/doggy daycare
-daycare or overnight care for shift workers

I think you'll struggle to make 50k part time doing business admin if you've not worked at all for 15 years and even then not private sector.

You'd most likely need to start on living wage or just above. So you'd need years of progression.

Even if you had been working up until today I don't think you'd get that for part time hours. Even as an EA to the CEO of a large FS company.

Same for me. I can do 100% of my job at home. It mainly involves talking on teams and the person underneath me works in another country. But my company wants regular attendance back to the office. 3 days a week. Lucky I have a very understanding manager they they have allowed me to stay home for now with some attendance.

What are you basing this on?

What you need to earn? What you think you should be paid? For how many hours/week?

It seems pretty 'plucked out of the air' given that 15 years ago you worked for the public sector in an administrative role - surely this was relatively low paid then as it would be now. The social workers in the same office won't be on 50k and they are registered graduate professionals and will be attending court etc.

I have worked my whole adult life, have undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications, am a registered professional (paying registration fees and cpd etc), sometimes work more than ft and still don't earn 50k....

If you really want to make your way back into work, you may need to start with volunteering and lower paid roles to have something more up to date on your cv?

I think you need to adjust your expectations here.

An “admin” role and 15 years out of the workplace isn’t going to equate to anywhere near it.

Thanks, that's interesting. The ones I'm thinking of sold off a lot of office space so are stuck with a lot of home working staff for now. Though lots of industries seem to be pushing for regular office attendance. I'm in law and could do 90% of my job from home but they made it a condition of our bonuses that we had to come in minimum 2 days a week to be able to qualify for the bonus scheme. (Some people dont care about the bonus and turn up less often but I think there will be a further crack down.)

Set yourself up as a virtual PA business to lots of small businesses. Diminishing market due to AI, but for the moment there are probably people who need it. You could branch out into physically organising and tidying for people.